[lttng-dev] Difference in metadata between per-PID and per-UIDtraces

[Mathieu Desnoyers]

* Thibault, Daniel (Daniel.Thibault at drdc-rddc.gc.ca) wrote:
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Mathieu Desnoyers [mailto:mathieu.desnoyers at efficios.com] 
> Envoyé : 10 septembre 2013 16:18
> 
> >  > And why is "tracer_patchlevel" dropped alongside the process-related attributes?
> >
> > Because different processes could use different tracer versions.
> 
>    How is such a situation handled in the per-UID case?

There are version checks for each application. We don't keep this
information in the trace metadata, because it is shared across apps.

Thanks,

Mathieu

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